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Social media websites all suffer from a phenomenon of being flooded low quality content the moment they become popular. Reddit's content quality dropped signif
by koheripbal 7y ago
Social media websites all suffer from a phenomenon of being flooded low quality content the moment they become popular.
Reddit's content quality dropped significantly the moment they deployed their mobile app, though it had been on a downward decline for a while.
I've seen HN being discussed at length on Reddit as a better alternative for "adylts", but now we see the same slow decline here.
The important questions are...
1. How can social media sites control quality of submitters.
2. What is the next site everyone over 30 is moving to and how do we stop all these teenagers from following us? /s
- BostonEnginerd 7y agoMetafilter has maintained reasonably high levels of discussion and civility. Part of this is active mods, the other part is that an account costs some money to open.
- beamatronic 7y agoI’d pay for HN
- koolba 7y agoHow much?
- beamatronic 7y agoIt’s worth at least as much as the New York Times, which is $8 a month
- koheripbal 7y agoMetafilter has no threads and no comment voting (as far as I can see). It's not really the same sort of experience. It's more like a message board - which is too inefficient. Time ordered comments makes for poor content.
- aaron695 7y ago> How can social media sites control quality of submitters. I'd like to see how a system where downvotes have reasons given works? Slashdot tries for upvotes. Currently you might be downvoted for being offtopic, but you might just think it's because someone disagrees politically. It would be an interesting overlay to create for HN
- meddlepal 7y agoMake downvotes and upvotes an economy. You can't downvote what you don't have to spend. You can't post if your bankrupt of points. Idea might need fine tuning.
- nirav72 7y agothe key to sanity while on Reddit is to stay on the non-default & topic/your area of interest specific subs.